{"id":39,"date":"2016-01-18T05:22:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T05:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-01-18T05:27:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T05:27:26","slug":"comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all-new-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/18\/comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all-new-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Comets can&#8217;t explain weird &#8216;alien megastructure&#8217; star after all | New Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8221; [&#8230;]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.lsu.edu\/newwebsite\/people\/schaefer.html\">Bradley Schaefer<\/a> of Louisiana State University has discovered that the mystery goes even further. When Boyajian\u2019s team studied the star, they looked at data from a Harvard University archive of <a href=\"http:\/\/dasch.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/project.php\">digitally scanned photographic plates of the sky from the past century or so<\/a> to see if the star had behaved unusually in the past, but found nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer decided this unusual star deserved a second look. He averaged the data in five-year bins to look for slow, long-term trends, and found that the star faded by about 20 per cent between 1890 and 1989. \u201cThe basic effect is small and not obvious,\u201d he says.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn28786-comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dn28786-1_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn28786-comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all\/\">Comets can&#8217;t explain weird &#8216;alien megastructure&#8217; star after all | New Scientist<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; [&#8230;]\u00a0Bradley Schaefer of Louisiana State University has discovered that the mystery goes even further. When Boyajian\u2019s team studied the star, they looked at data from a Harvard University archive of digitally scanned photographic plates of the sky from the past century or so to see if the star had behaved unusually in the past, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}